Still reading — those Mars books are quite some volumes I must say. I'm about halfway through and love it just as much as Red Mars. It's absolutely stunning how much detail the author Kim Stanley put into the whole thing (read: landscape); a fact I appreciate all the more in light of the current Curiosity Mars expedition.

— "Mystery is important. To know everything, to know the whole truth, is dull. There is no magic in that. Magic is not knowing, magic is wondering about what and how and where." ~ Cortez, from The Longest Journey